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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

While most supermarkets prioritized developments that facilitated COVID-era shopping behaviors like grocery delivery, curbside pickup or self-checkout, grocery shoppers are now looking for improved in-store experiences. Local grocers also have invested heavily in regional product arrays to differentiate their shopping experience.

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Is Curbside the New Holiday Retail Battleground?

Retail TouchPoints

While health and safety concerns and local restrictions have prompted many retail operators to expand their businesses to the curbside, the longer-term story behind that shift is as much about convenience. Improving Shopping Experiences. Outdoor Technology Options.

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How a B2B Resale Platform can Solve your Holiday Returns Pile-up

Retail TouchPoints

Though Thanksgiving week is when the bulk of holiday shopping is done (read: Grey Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday), this year consumers started shopping earlier than ever, solidifying that Christmas creep is alive and well. Ex: outdoor furniture fetches higher pricing in a shallow SKU listing.

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Shinola and Filson to Update In-Store Experience with Omnichannel Platform

Retail TouchPoints

Both retail brands are owned by Bedrock Manufacturing ; Filson is known for high-end outdoor clothing and accessories, and Shinola offers products including timepieces, leather goods, jewelry and audio. Filson operates a total of 14 stores in the U.S., Shinola operates 21 stores across the U.S., Canada and Japan.

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What to Consider When Incorporating AI into Your Retail Business

Retail TouchPoints

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way businesses and individuals operate by using data to power tools that can analyze, respond, predict and create in a manner similar to the human brain. These types of uses should be carefully implemented to ensure compliance with relevant privacy laws. Bias concerns.

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Contactless Delivery Becomes A Necessity For BOPIS Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

The Second Wave research results from April 27, 2020 showed that 73% of respondents expect this pandemic experience to change the way they shop in the future. According to the Q1 2020 Salesforce Shopping Index report, sites offering BOPIS grew digital revenue 92% between March 10-20, 2020 compared to 19% for sites not offering BOPIS.

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How will Cotti Coffee take on its rivals amid fierce competition in China?

Inside Retail

Li explains this model helps Cotti Coffee to capitalise on the local market knowledge and regional resources of its partners, while the latter will bring to the table the supply chain, operational and other strengths. Li also stated that scalability was a key factor in the brand’s rapid growth. We have also iterated on store formats.